Science

Describe the lifecycle of a plant, habitat of an animal or structure of an element

Compare the planets in solar system or the world’s different biomes

Use images to explain concepts that are hard to access inside the classroom

History & Social Studies

Create mock advertisements for historical services

Tell what you would do if you were president

Share the history of a city, state or country

Pretend to be a historical figure and share your thoughts on an issue

Summarize a historical event describing beginning, middle and end

Art

Explain the meaning of a drawing, painting, photograph or sculpture

Give a report on a famous artist or art movement

Color & form photo scavenger hunt

Make a portfolio of the year’s projects and create a virtual museum of the class’ work

Create technique tutorials or how-to videos

Foreign Language

Use new vocabulary in a creative story

Read a news article or story written in the language and summarize it

Explain how to conjugate verbs

Diagram sentences, explain and read them aloud

Make personalized flashcards

Describe weekend plans in the language

Web Image Search Expands Video Making Possibilities

Built-in image search makes it easy to create videos, even when you don’t have the right images on your device. Find the perfect images to include in history reports, science concept explanations, and more.

Access image search from the photo selection screen. Image search is divided up into two categories, Educational Search and Web Search.

Simple Image Citation

When you share or export, image credits are automatically added to the end of all videos that include web images and maps, so students can learn about citing their sources. Image citation is on by default and can be disabled in the Shadow Puppet settings menu.

Safe Search & Option to Disable Search

Web searches use the strictest image search settings available from the search provider and we have additional safe search filters layered on top to make sure the content served is appropriate for students.

Add Maps and Satellite Images Directly into Videos

Map Search
Search for a location, toggle between map or satellite view, drop pins, and then snap a photo of the map to include in your video. Do a capital city scavenger hunt, identify geographic formations, or create a family heritage map.

Famous Landmark Gallery
Use our Famous Landmarks gallery as a jumping off point for a report on an important natural or man-made landmark, to give context around a historical event, or discuss the belief systems of different cultures.

Third grade students create an informative, persuasive video using photos from image search and drawings.

Supports the Common Core

Shadow Puppet can be incorporated across your curriculum to support these Common Core State Standards. Check out the 20+ Common Core aligned activity ideas inside the app!

Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6

Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5